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Re: [Spits] no more clunk

To: jimmuller@rcn.com, "triumphs@autox.team.net"
Subject: Re: [Spits] no more clunk
From: Doug Braun <doug@dougbraun.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:21:50 -0700 (PDT)
Actually for me, the clunking of the float in an
almost-empty tank serves as an audible backup gas
gauge :-)

It is very possible that handing the sander unit
during removal and reinstallation was the straw that
broke the camel's back, and it is truly busted inside
the electrical part.

Doug



--- Jim Muller <jimmuller@rcn.com> wrote:

> Sometimes the low-tech solution is the right one.
> 
> I took the fule sender out of the Spitfire's tank
> the other day.  My 
> mirror wouldn't fit into the hole but from what I
> could see and from 
> poking around inside with a wire I concluded there
> was nothing loose 
> in the tank.  Can't say I like sticking my face into
> an open tank of 
> highly combustible fluid, but I did wait for a damp,
> overcast day to 
> do this so as to avoid ESD that might send me to
> kingdom-come.  I 
> observed that the float has a bit of gas in it,
> which explains why 
> the guage has been reading low.  I also observed
> that a rubber 
> grommet/seal-like loop thingy was dangling loose
> from the arm.  There 
> appeared to be nothing for it to seal.  So I guessed
> that it was a 
> bumper-stop to prevent the float from banging, and
> that it should 
> have been stretched around the center of the float. 
> So I moved it 
> there, then later looked it up in a catalogue to
> find pictures which 
> show the float with a collar around the center. 
> Aha!
> 
> Today's drive to work had no clunking!
> 
> Of course, the guage didn't work at all today. 
> Maybe when I put the 
> sender back in I got it stuck on the pickup tube. 
> Or maybe the 
> internals decided to break.  I believe it is wired
> correctly, but 
> (though I don't have a diagram in front of me just
> now) I don't think 
> it should make any difference.
> 
> So, is there any collective experience to indicate
> that the sender 
> could just go bad?  I could drain and seal the
> float, but if the non-
> functional guage is not my re-assembly error then
> perhaps I should 
> just order a new sender.
> 
> [All missppellinnggs in this note are intentional. 
> I just can't 
> tpye.]
> 
> Jim Muller
> jimmuller@rcn.com
> 
> 
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